Photographic filter



May 28, 1940.

A. H. KAMPFER Er AL PHOTOGRAPHIC FILTER Original Fi1 ed Oct. 7. 1937 en fa rs Patented Pno'rocaAr-nro FILTER Adolf H.

Kampfer and Albert Schattmann,

@riginal application October 7, 1937, Serial No. 167,850. Divided and this application March 7, 1939, Serial No. Gctober 14, 11936 1 Claim.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in cinematography, and the invention has for its object a new and improved photographic filter which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed, this application being a divisional of our application Serial Number 167,- 850, filed October 7, 1937, such application claiming the new method embodied in our inventive idea, while the present application is' drawn to w -cover more specifically the photographic filter itself as an article of manufacture.

It is already known in the copying of cinematograph films to dispose light-reducing means between the light source and the negative, viz., to

H5 employ alternately means of this nature having different powers of transmitting the light de-- pendent on the density of the single successive scenes in the negative which have been taken under different lighting conditions (studio or outdoor exposures or the like). This step is taken in order to obtain a greater evenness inthe density of the exhibited film.

If it were desired to copy also the known summation color films, which include within the 25 frame of a normal cinematograph film picture a group comprising a plurality of, for example four, color component images of reduced size taken thru different color filters, on the lines set forth in the above by disposing in front of the complete cinematograph film picture in the manner aforesaid a uniform light-absorbing filter having greater or weaker absorbing properties dependent on the fact as to whether the exposure has been made in a studio or in the open air, the result obtained would not be satisfactory. The color component images belonging to one group each have densities differing one from the other, so v that a uniform light-reducing filter disposed in front of the complete group cannot make allowance for their individual requirements.

40 As regards the light-reducing means to be em- I 4 to cinematograph pictures of normal size) and on the other hand the absorption of the light within the group.

There are employed, therefore, in accordance 50 with the invention, groups of filters having withthe particular color component images.

260,418. In Germany in the area of a .normal cinematograph film pic- .ture a plurality of, for example four, part-areas which have in relation to one another different light-reducing characteristics corresponding to Preferably there are employed'a plurality of these groups of filters, each of which possesses a greater or weaker density in relation to the others, but in which the light-transmitting powers ofthe single part-areas are in the same ratio. Usually two groups of filters will be found to be sufficient, one for outdoor and the other for indoor exposures. In this way the density ratio of the part-images in each group may be fixed in relation to one another in-one single copying w process in the manner called for by the tuning of the groupin the film which is to be projected in natural colors.

The invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing, which shows 29 two groups of filters.

Figure 1 illustrates a. face view of a group of filters, in which the light absorption of the partarea a is ten percent, that of the part-area b twenty percent, that of the part-area c fifteen percent, and that of the'part-area d eight percent. I

Fig. 2 shows a face view of a group of filters, in which the light absorption is twice that of the filters in Fig. 1. The ratio between the cor- 30 responding part-areas a, b, c, d is accordingly as 20:40:30:16. The cross frame e separating the single part-areas is fully transparent, so that a black frame is formed in the positive film.

The groups of filters for a difl'ererit sequence of scenes are exchanged either by hand or by automatic means of the kind known per se in con. junction with the ordinary type of absorption filter.

What is claimed is: 40

As an article ofmanufacture, a photographic filter comprising a frame having the dimensions of the standard cinematographic frame of normal size, the frame enclosing a plurality of partarea filters of different densitiesrthe part-area filters being separatedfrom each other by transparent cross bars defining the individual partareas. I

v ADOLF H. KAMPFER.

ALBERT SCHATTMANN. 

